死 sǐ — to die; dead; to the death; to the extreme
死
Level 1 · Common HSK 4 #400
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Basic definition
Detailed explanation
verb
- (会意。小篆字形。右边是人,左边是“歺”( è),残骨,指人的形体与魂魄分离。本义:生命终止)
- die;decease;expire;pass away; beyond e.g 死生 · 死过 · 死限 · 死却 · 死不残 · 死去还魂 · 死费尽残 · 死数里算帐 · 死耗 · 死君
- lay down one’s life for e.g 死难 死义 · 死节 · 死士
- end
- risk one’s life;to the death e.g 死战:死守 · 死杀
- cling to e.g 心还没死 · 你就死了这条心吧
adjective
adverb
- extremely;do death e.g 死沉 死急 · 死要面子 · 高兴死了 · 累得要死 · 累死了
noun
- capital punishment
- corpse
- chief;in charge of
Related words
- 死亡 death; to die
- 生死 life and death
- 死刑 death penalty; capital punishment
- 死者 the deceased; the dead
- 死人 dead person
- 死亡率 mortality rate
- 该死 damn it
- 致死 deadly
- 死伤 casualties/dead and injured
- 要死 (after an adjective) extremely; terribly
- 死活 life or death
- 处死 an execution/to put sb to death
- 死神 Death personified/Azrael (Angel of Death of Jewish and Islamic mythology)/the Gr
- 战死 to die in battle; to be killed in action
- 临死 facing death/at death's door
- 死角 blind corner
- 死尸 a corpse/a dead body
- 死地 a desperate situation; a deadly trap
- 死守 to defend one's property to the death/to cling obstinately to old habits/die-har
- 生死存亡 life-and-death; critical; survival or ruin